CGI 3D Animation Short Film HD 'Planet Unknown' by Shawn Wang | CGMeetup

At the end of the 21st century mankind were facing global resource depletion. Space Rovers were sent out to find potential inhabitable planets.

Planet Unknown is a passion project from director Shawn Wang. Animated over eleven months it was the final project for Shawn’s course at the Communication University of China. The attention to detail is exceptional with jaw dropping renders. Both the pace of the film and the use of shots is impeccable.

Planet Unknown recently won Best Animated Short at the Burbank International Film Festival.

Software's: Cinema 4D, plugin TurbulenceFD and Octane for C4D were heavily used for most of the tasks. Houdini was used to fracture things. Then Zbrush for sculpting, Mari for texturing, After Effects for compositing, and Premiere for editing. Python and JavaScript were used for scripting in C4D, Mari and AE, which helped speed up the process a lot.
It took around 4 months to build the 3D assets. Then Shawn moved on to animatic previews. Each individual shot got more clear and problems to solve became more specific. Then the rest of the time were mainly focused on building scenes, keyframe animation, FX simulation, rendering and compositing.

Director biography: Shawn Wang is an animation director and 3D artist. Having a passion for CGI and storytelling, Shawn loves creating narrative visuals through all types of media.

Credits:
Written & Directed by: Shawn Wang
Modelling, Texturing, Animation,Compositing & Editing: Shawn Wang
Music & Sound Design by: Echoic Audio
Composer: Sam Foster
Sound Design by: Tom Gilbert, David Johnston
Special Thanks to: Evolutions
Re-recording Mixer: Will Norie
Executive Producer: Xinyuan Huang
Faculty Adviser: Yucheng Huang
Special Thanks to System Advisers: Sicong Wang, Jiawei Cao, Horizon Bian

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[charlesmangum]

Seen this one numerous times, and I still LOVE it. Kind of makes you want to see a sequel.

[Harrzack]

Stunning textures and aging on the machines. Their details on their speed-runs was equally amazing. With this level of talent, reality has a tough act to follow!

[djinnisequoia]

Outstanding!! The theme may be a familiar story, but the look, the action, the scenery are all really well done. Did you notice the robots get a little grungier with each misadventure? Cool touch. I love the sound effects, and the theme music is well-chosen. Great work.

[MikeKojoteStone]

I'd love if short films nowadays wouldn't just aim to be cute and have some action, but an actual story as well. I remember the days when a lack of CG technology made that a neccessity. The story was the only thing keeping the viewer engaged. Now, it's like ... 'who needs any story anyway'?
Just being cute doesn't work out for humans and it doesn't work out for short films. I will have forgotten this one within two days max, because there's nothing to remember.

[lv_m]

Positive, natural. Details... like it. Would like to see more. It worths to make a big story from it.

[bradyloewen]

"My battery is getting low and is getting dark " - Mars robot

[bunzeebear]

Most robots seem to be the wall-E design and sound and attitude.

[oscargrouch]

CLAP. CLAP CLAP! Very well done. On a side note. After an extinction level meteor shower such us that, That seed could have created a tropical rain forest and I still wouldn't want to colonize that planet.

[AX_Hunterz_]

3:30 Whats the Weather today? -Sunny with Meteor showers ever 30 sec. like always.

[ballisticmissile]

Pixar would like to purchase this for 8-billion dollars

[B.Mega.D]

Why? Why? WHY do we love robots so much...especially those on wheels or on tracks.

[bubbles]

Yeah, it's kinda hard to grow crops if your farmland is being bombarded by meteorites every so often. A little bit of water would also help, but I guess it'd be better to work on one problem at a time.

[peterg.j.macpherson]

when you realize said planet is actually Earth because the moon was in the final frame.

[americaoverpartyfounder]

Dude awesome! The wife really enjoyed this.

[brodyszone]

Imagine if you cld choose what country you cld be born in... just thinking out loud. Thankful to be an American

[because]

Shawn Wang: can I copy your homework?


Pixar: yeah just change it up a bit so it doesn't look obvious you copied.


Shawn Wang:

[cybergaming]

It says they were looking for an inhabitable planet but if it's resource depletion it needs to say habitable

[leozinn._]

Essa animação é muito bem feita podia virar filme

[lazitchkapetane]

Знаете кого действительно жалко? Тех, кто погиб, выполняя свой долг..

[nicnic]

Спасибо за видеоролик, с уважением к вам Россия.